{"id":382,"date":"2006-11-23T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/23\/sitliq\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T02:54:24","slug":"sitliq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/23\/sitliq\/","title":{"rendered":"sitliq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[sitliq: Inuit for hard crusty snow]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the kid wore woollen mittens<br \/>\npinned to his serge wool parka<br \/>\nand those navy wool breeches<br \/>\nwith their laced leggings that<br \/>\nlooked so much like the Mounties&#8217;<br \/>\nbut were not so great when<br \/>\nhis woollen stockings slid down his legs<br \/>\nand left them raw and red.<\/p>\n<p>wool seemed to be perpetually wet<br \/>\nwhen it wasn&#8217;t frozen into<br \/>\na series of knotted ice balls<br \/>\nor a hard cold pad on his knees<br \/>\nbut it was the mittens that would fall aside<br \/>\nor drag off<br \/>\nand his hands would scrape numbly<br \/>\nagainst the hard crusty snow<br \/>\nchunks that could serve as<br \/>\nany kind of toy<br \/>\na puck<br \/>\na plate<br \/>\na weapon<br \/>\na ball replacement<br \/>\na cool drink<\/p>\n<p>his fingers were raw and red<br \/>\nas his knees<br \/>\nhis ears were red chunks<br \/>\nhis nose ran like an icicle<br \/>\nin far away spring<br \/>\nforming a snotsicle on his upper lip<br \/>\nit was getting dark<br \/>\nhe was cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[sitliq: Inuit for hard crusty snow] the kid wore woollen mittens pinned to his serge wool parka and those navy wool breeches with their laced leggings that looked so much like the Mounties&#8217; but were not so great when his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/23\/sitliq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-serial","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}